Reproductive Health and Rights

Sexual and reproductive health programs are an essential component of development.

High quality programs are cost-effective and offer a broad range of benefits impacting development, such as reducing sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, unintended pregnancy, and maternal and child death.

The global reluctance to invest fully in this area reflects discriminatory attitudes toward women, who bear the greatest burden of poor sexual and reproductive health.

Selected collaborations and resources

We make a million choices that are affecting the environment every day, and yet people don’t have the skills and understanding to do something about that. Meg Greene shares her thoughts with FP Voices, stories from people passionate about family planning, from K4Health + FP2020

What do we know about the impact of adolescent sexual activity, pregnancy, and childbearing on girls’ life prospects? Margaret Greene and Thomas W. Merrick’s Poverty Reduction: Does Reproductive Health Matter? for the World Bank builds on their earlier MacArthur Foundation-funded research exploring the links between poor reproductive health and poverty.